Bill Plante, whose tenure as a CBS News White House correspondent spanned the administrations of Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, has died. Plante retired in 2016 after 52 years with the news division, a career that included coverage of the civil rights…
Leanza Cornett, who got crowned Miss America in 1993, died. She was 49. A family spokesperson told CBS News affiliate WJAX-TV that Cornett died Wednesday, October 28. No cause of death was given, but the station had reported the Jacksonville native, a…
CBS News is mourning Maria Mercader, a longtime journalist with the news outlet who died in a New York hospital at 54 after battling coronavirus. In a news release shared Sunday afternoon, CBS remembered Mercader as a “network veteran who covered breaking…
Morley Safer, the legendary journalist who became the longest-serving reporter for CBS’s “60 Minutes” news magazine, has died at 84. CBS News confirmed Safer’s death on Thursday afternoon. The reporter retired last week after 46 seasons with the television program.…
Nelson Mandela has died, South African President Jacob Zuma has said. South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon died peacefully at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, Zuma announced in a nationally-televised address. “Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson…
